科学家傻眼了，这种印度食材居然能治疗癌症_公共英语阅读理解

科学家傻眼了，这种印度食材居然能治疗癌症

“高风险成神经细胞瘤对传统治疗方法会表现出抗性，病人存活几率也很低”，来自中弗罗里达大学的主要研究员，塔玛拉J·西莫兰德说道。

Using curcumin to fight cancer isn't a new idea, but it's difficult to get the chemical into drugs because of its low solubility and poor stability. Nanoparticles could fix that.

利用姜黄色素来抗癌并不是什么新想法，但由于它溶解度和稳定性都很低，因此制成药物十分困难。纳米颗粒倒是可以解决这个难题。

Even better, the nanoparticles were more effective against the type of cells usually most resistant to conventional drugs.

更值得庆幸的是，纳米颗粒在对抗那些对传统药物显示出抗性的细胞尤为有效。

As neuroblastoma is usually very difficult to treat, that's a promising start for these spicy nanoparticles. Not only is it largely resistant to anti-cancer drugs, it's also known to cause health problems after successful treatment, including hearing loss and other disabilities. It also often returns after treatment.

成神经细胞瘤很难治疗，对这些辣味纳米颗粒来说，目前进展初期还是有很大希望的。因为成神经细胞瘤不仅对大多数抗癌药物都有抗性，而且治疗成功后仍旧会造成健康问题，包括听力受损和其它残疾症状，而且可能会复发。

If we can develop an effective nanoparticle approach to fighting neuroblastoma, it would be yet more evidence of the potential of treating disease at the smallest possible scales: nanoparticles have previously been shown to help kickstart the human immune system to help fight cancer, for example.